Testing Measurement category: 779 books
Setting Performance Standards
Foundations, Methods, and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and governmental and private organizations. It is one of the most complex, controversial, and vexing issues...
Assessing Media Education
A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 2: Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This component of Assessing Media Education is intended for those who would like to know how other schools have grappled with implementing assessment initiatives, and who have used assessment to improve their programs.
What's Wrong with Our Schools
and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
What's Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education....
by ConsultTheSage.Com
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Much like astrology and numerology, the Enneagram is a system of determining personality types. It is a circle which consists of nine different and distinct personality styles that can help people learn more about themselves, how they interact with others, and what may be the best courses of action...
Teacher and Student Evaluation
Moving Beyond the Failure of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores. In six concise chapters, Teacher and Student Evaluation explores the historical rise and modern landscape of accountability in American...
Academically Adrift
Limited Learning on College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to...
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume is the presentation of research information...
Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms
The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award
This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher...
Mathematics Formative Assessment, Volume 1
75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Transform your mathematics instruction with this rich collection of formative assessment techniques
Award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey apply the successful format of Keeley’s best-selling Science Formative Assessment to mathematics. They provide 75 formative...
Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1
75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that support conceptual understanding. Science Formative Assessment shows K-12 educators how to weave formative assessment into daily instruction....
by Katherine Ryan, Lorrie Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Antony John Kunnan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Evaluating Language Assessments offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical bases and research methodologies for the evaluation of language assessments and demonstrates the importance of a fuller understanding of this widely used evaluative tool. The volume explores language assessment evaluation...
Was That Really Me?
How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
An updated edition of the classic title, Beside Ourselves
In Was That Really Me?, Naomi Quenk has provided the next giant step in applying Jung's model of development in healthy personalities. That step is to understand, accept, and learn to handle our hidden personality responsibly.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning.
This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning, practice-based theory on assessment for learning,...